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Don't Let Boehner Replace Military Cuts With Cuts to Medicare and Social Security
It's outrageous, even by Republican standards. Not only are John Boehner and House Republicans trying to back out of a deal they themselves forced, they are trying to replace military cuts with cuts to Medicare and Social Security. These reportedly include: Raising the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67 Lowering cost of living increases to Social Security by changing the formula by which the government calculates inflation Cuts to Medicaid The whole reason this deal was even...
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Tell Boehner: Stop Spending Tax Dollars Defending DOMA
Stop Defending Discrimination
Tell Boehner: Stop Spending Tax Dollars Defending DOMA At the same time that Speaker Boehner is preaching about the need to cut spending, he and the House Republican leadership have already spent millions of our tax dollars defending the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The majority of Americans oppose this discrimination, and there is no justification for Speaker Boehner to spend money – the people's money – to fight back against basic fairness. Add your name to our...
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Ask Dick Cheney: Are You High?
Send a message to Dick Cheney. Ask him a question: "Are you high?" After the disastrous foreign policy record of the Bush-Cheney administration, it takes an unbelievable amount of chutzpah for you to go on the attack against President Obama national security appointments. And yet, recently, Cheney has done just that: "The performance now of Barack Obama as he staffs up the national security team for the second term is dismal," Cheney said in comments...
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Tell Ted Nugent: "Stop Slamming Others & Focus on Your Crappy Music Instead"
Once again, Ted Nugent has made headlines by attacking President Obama, making not-so-veiled threats, and just plain behaving like a lunatic: Speaking during an interview at the National Rifle Association's convention over the weekend, Nugent said that conservatives need to recruit hundreds, if not thousands, of voters for presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney if they want any chance of beating President Obama -- who is leading a government that Nugent says is "wiping his ass with the...
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Stand with President Obama to pass the Buffett Rule
Warren Buffett, a billionaire, pays a lower tax rate than his secretary. Think that's unfair? So does Warren Buffett. Right now, millionaires and billionaires have nearly the lowest tax rates they've had in 50 years, while everyone else picks up the tab. So President Obama is asking Congress to pass a commonsense bill, known as the Buffett Rule, to fix the tax code and make sure that millionaires and billionaires pay at least the same share of their income in taxes as middle-class families. The...
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Tell the Republicans: "Denounce Rush's 'Slut' Comment!"
Denounce Rush's "Slut" Comment
"What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex -- what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute." -- Rush Limbaugh We are absolutely repulsed right now. Sandra Fluke, the courageous Georgetown Law student who had the strength to stand up in Congress against Republican attacks on birth control coverage, is now under attack from the right wing...
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1,000,000 Strong Against the Republican War on Women
1,000,000 Strong Against the Republican War on Women
(Our friends at the DCCC have over 500,000 1,000,000 signatures on this petition to the Republican leadership. Please help them take it even higher by signing and spreading the word!) The Republican War on Women is real, and it's extremely dangerous. In the last year, Republicans in Congress have: Proposed redefining rape to only cases of "forcible rape" to deny access to women's health services Voted repeatedly to defund Planned Parenthood Held a...
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Stand with the Obama Administration on Keystone XL
Stand with President Obama on Keystone XL
Stand with the Obama Administration on Keystone XL The State Department denied the permit to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline after congressional Republicans put it on an irresponsible and arbitrary timeline. President Obama had made clear that a project of this magnitude—with high stakes for public health, the environment, and our country's energy supply—needed a thorough review. But Republicans in Congress demanded an up-or-down decision in just 60 days, cutting short a process...
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Tell Newt: "Defend" Your OWN Marriage
Tell Newt: "Defend" Your OWN Marriage, Hypocrite!
Tell Newt: "Defend" Your OWN Marriage In what seems like a piece straight out of The Onion, Newt Gingrich has become the latest GOP candidate to pledge to "defend traditional marriage" by signing the presidential marriage pledge of the National Organization for Marriage (basically, a pledge to oppose same-sex marriage). In case you're wondering, yes, this is the same Newt Gingrich who has been married three times (hat trick!), admitted...
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Tell the GOP: "Stop Sabotaging Our Economy!"
Tell the GOP: "Stop Sabotaging Our Economy!"
Write Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, and Eric Cantor, and tell them to stop sabotaging our economy. With unemployment still stubbornly high, and with the economy growing at an anemic pace, you'd think that our leaders would actually lead and do something to help. Unfortunately, Republican leaders seem hell-bent on pushing back on any such attempt. They appear to be deliberately sabotaging our economy in an attempt to defeat President Obama in 2012. America is starting to wake...
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